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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=25122Notwithstanding the advancement made in other walks of life – important as they are – a certain amount of progress in the field of sports and games especially when benchmarked against some of the developed countries is what proving to be elusive for the Indian community at large. Sports and games do signify and form a vital index of development in an overall arch of progress when viewed from a holistically considered standpoint. In spite of infusing crores of rupees into the making of a good athlete or say a good sprinter the results it seems, are hard to come by. And it has to be admitted that despite all these moneyed endeavours into creating a world-class atmosphere of sports and games, something is amiss in this entire architecture that goes behind the making of a world-class athlete or a sportsperson. Barring the singular exception of cricket which in no way draws global participation, India’s comprehensive retreat into shadows seems to be nearing consummation even from all those fields of sports which she used to dominate, for example, hockey and football. This falling down of the standard in terms of excellence coupled with the shift of emphasis from sports and games have wielded a baneful influence to the sporting fraternity. A close look will reveal multiple faults in this superstructure that houses sports and games. The primary faults that are besetting the Indian sports are as such: infrastructural problem, lack of research in sports psychology and medicine and an absence of state-of-the-art training facilities and proper trainers are some of the problems that need highlighting in this context.

Infrastructural inadequacy right now is the greatest bane that is afflicting the entire sporting community like no other else. A good infrastructure can make anyone reach his/her desired destination or at least can spur anyone to reach his/her destination in a positive way. And an absence of it can act as a negative catalyst in this crucial equation of success and failure in the field of sports and games. Viewed from a holistic point of view a good sporting infrastructure combines every sort of sporting facility including training facilities. Bereft of this we should continue to treat a certain Milkha Singh or a certain P.T. Usha as mere exceptions and not the product of a sustained, systematic effort on nationwide scale. Infrastructural insufficiency when dissected and ramified in a sports-specific manner paints a picture that is abysmally worse. With the possible exceptions of cricket, football and to some extent hockey no other sport in India can boast of a worthwhile infrastructure to date. A proper infrastructure lets the budding and raw talents breed and be bloodied in a proper way. And without this raw talents not only go unnoticed but just stop bubbling out after a certain level.

Lack of advanced scientific research in the field of sports medicine and psychology is another factor that is not only crippling our progress but also points to the unfathomable unawareness that has become a corollary product of our collective inertia in the field of sports and games. Proper research in a sport-specific manner will include research on diet, training and on an array of psychological aspects that an athlete should work on while honing his/her skills in a particular field of sport. We should also remember in this regard that every sport is unique and in that it demands a specific set of skills to be brought into play by the concerned athlete. And without proper research we will not be able to rectify our gaffes or improve upon what we already have in this entire process.

Last but not the least is the inexplicable absence of state-of-the-art training facilities and a pool of well-trained trainers who can impart their knowledge to all those budding athletes in an effective, professional manner. Trainers are the backbones of athletes and without them no pool of athletes, however talented, can succeed.

So, the obvious question is how to improve sports and games in India in a comprehensive and collective manner. The problem is that there is no readymade solution or panacea that will cure all the maladies in a jiffy. At the outset, the infrastructural insufficiency has to be remedied by critically re-examining the success models of different countries- countries that are traditionally strong in some specific branch of sports. So spending and pumping money in a profligate manner will not suffice, we have to ensure that it goes to the right place in the right manner and for the right cause. Also a lot has to be invested behind research on sports medicine and psychology. Collaboration or tie-ups with some of the leading foreign universities or institutes is an absolute must if we are to herald a new dawn in Indian sports and games. Coaches have to be trained and educated not only in India but if the need arises they should be sent to foreign countries for necessary specialization. Equal priority should be given to sporting activities right from the school level by not only introducing but also making sports and games a mandatory subject in the course curriculum. Above all, a supportive atmosphere towards reward and participation should be created across the nation so that sports can claim its rightful place in our society and country.

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=24912Football is the most popular and perhaps one of the oldest games in our country. Its duration of ninety minutes remains packed with excitement. Perhaps no other game involves the fans so intensely. In recent times cricket has become equally or even more popular, but here the show element is more at play in ordinary matches.

The situation of a closely contested soccer match in a packed stadium is a very common sight. In Kolkata the match between Mohan Bagan and East Bengal is generally of the character. It is an age-old rivalry and its fans are sharply divided in their support. The supporters of the two teams are always at daggers drawn, though not the players. Often a good player of one team joins the other team and one seldom notices any feeling of malice prevailing between them. But their supporters sometimes become dangerous it a fan of the opposite side praises his team. Here the game is not judged purely on its merit. Here Personal feeling and sentiment of the onlooker counts for more.

But what shall the game look like if such personal feelings do not affect the judgement? If the match is closely contested the ball shall swing from pole to pole. It will generate a rising sensation. Each time a team succeeds there shall be applause. This impartial applause shall encourage both the teams and the tempo of the match rise with every goal.

In a sensational one-day cricket match also there is excitement with every ball bowled and with every run scored. But the excitement is interrupted between over or intervals. But in a soccer match it is a sustained affair. The fate of the team swings in the balance almost every moment. There is almost no break except for the half-time. The crowd becomes involved in the game for the entire gamut of the game.

These days the victories are celebrated through fire-works and crackers. Banners are displayed are displayed to acclaim individual players. Sometimes people cross the fence, even if a goal by their favourite team is given as wrong by the referee. In fact, the people remain so tense during the brief period; they often forget to behave like sportsmen.

In view of these risks the authorities tighten the reins of control during such matches. Sometimes in a tense match between two favourite teams the crowd becomes violent. And they become unhappy with the decision. To an observer it seems as if for them the match is their life’s stake. Sometimes even bets are entered into and the match remains a hot topic in trams and buses as the people return home.

After Australia thumped India's arch rivals Pakistan, partly attributable to the costly drops, off the spirited Wahab Riaz and India, on other hand which overcame slight early jitters, the game now moves onto the mouth watering clash of the tournament, in which the Co-host team Australia battles it out with the Men in Blue.

While Australia were outstanding with their bowling in their Quarter-final, especially Hazlewood with his variations and the pace battery led by Mitchell Starc with his swinging bowling at the start and death, India too were right on the money, with the team hunting in packs.

The Australian and Indian Batting on the Adelaide and Melbourne pitch respectively were with some grass in it, both good for Batting, but the latter being a bigger ground. The 2 teams had 2 wonderful knocks each, the Australian team in the chasing, but not without reprieves of those 2 wonderful Batsmen.

Shane Watson and Glenn Maxwell were dropped off the lion hearted Bowler Wahab Riaz who were then having a very little score to their credit, which could be the game turning point of the Semi's. On the other hand, the Indian team in the first innings were essayed with a Controversial wrong decision of the Rohit's waist high ball catch who was then on 90 and went onto score 137.

The Strength's and Weaknesses:-

The Indian bowling is hunting in packs with Shami leading from the front with his well directed short deliveries who is ably supported by Umesh Yadav with his pace and snared 4 wickets in the Quarter's. The Australian on the flip side have their Starc with his swinging deliveries and pin-point bowling with Hazlewood.

The weakness might however be the Indian's in-experience line up & the death bowling, though it has not caused anything negative till now.

To sum it up the Indian pace bowling looks strong in terms of consistency and has an inherent weakness of death bowling and inexperience in it. Ashwin is a positive in Spin department with his experience adding teeth to the attack in the slog overs. The inexperience can be set off by the presence of ever calm leadership of Dhoni The Australian pace bowling has got speed, precision and experience to its kitty, spin looks fairly well too but not as much experience as Ashwin.

The Batting department looks to have an edge with the Australians. The Australian team has a firepower allrounder in Maxwell and the batting has been a contribution from each one of them in the team and has crossed 300+ twice. The Indian team too has contributions from each and every one whenever it needed but it lacks the Maxwell destructive touch. If Dhoni and/or Raina mimic their old glory then both the teams are on an even footing with the former team having David Warner in another destructive player.

The sum up:-

The ever cool Dhoni is in pursuit of another feather in his already filled cap of his Captaincy career. This would most probably be his last chance for a win in a major tournament. His calm headedness and faith in his players brings in a lot of power and poise to the team's prospects. If the Indian team batsmen step up a gear and bowls well in tandem without a hiccup it can be a good win for the side.

The Australian's on the other hand will be playing on their home soil which is their greatest advantage and also have the added cushioning of having experiencing the pitch in the league stage. The Australian's killing spirit and their past record also aids well to their advantage.

Will it be Australia strong willed spirit or will it be the ever calming influence of Dhoni that will come trumps. An interesting and high octane clash is on the cards. Don't miss it. In one caption it is

"Calmness vs Killing giants"

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=24252Teen Patti Octro game is becoming quite popular these days. Almost all people are playing it, not only playing; in fact they are just crazy about winning the chips and money. I have played many online games on my mobile but this one is having surely big amount of active users, even I got many of my friends playing this game, almost 25% of my Facebook friends.

I have heard lot about hacking this game and getting the unlimited coins for the game play. Let me tell you not only this is wrong and illegal but also all those are the fake things. No one can actually hack such online multiplayer games. So don’t fall for those who are saying that you can have unlimited coins with help of some kind of hacking tool. No need to do that. Go for proper way.

There are another ways that you can get free coins for this game and that also with legal way. So you don’t need any kind of hacking which is illegal. Here they are.

First method: When you are login into the game with your facebook id or anything you can see chip icon at the bottom right side. From that section you can purchase the coins. From the same place you will also see the free coins option, just go for it. From here you will get different kind of tasks, and by completing them you will earn free coins for the game. Don’t worry, some tasks are very simple like you just need to download some kind of apps from the list and you will earn the decided amount of coins, that’s it. Some of them are paid one but for them you will earn big amount of coins too. Check out the image so that you get idea about available tasks.

Second method: I don’t think I need to explain more about this task. You all know that all users are getting daily coin bonus when they are login into game. So if you are out of coin then just stop playing game for a week or so, but keep login into the game daily for getting bonus. Remember without login into game you will not get any reward. So like that in a week you can get decent amount of coins for starting your game again.

So that’s it. You can get free coins for your game like both ways. No need to fall for any kind of cheap hacking trick which be serious for your computer because of some kind of virus threat. As they all tell you to download some kind of file or software to do hacking and it is surely risky.

Women's Cricket is always on the "off"side. While Cricket is considered to be a men's game, probably it has sidelined eyeing the women's game forever, no matter what performance is given by them. For instance, the present Indian men's team is not performing well, even then the BCCI is not catering it's huge and abundant resources of wealth to promote the women's team. This is one area of talent suppression in India.

While some stay always in riches and becomes famous in short period just because of the gender, the other gender has always struggled to come up with the same amount of sheer hardwork and dedication. Is it just that women should not play Cricket or is it that they should struggle much more than men to get into comfortable position in life...?

INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

Sports has today got centre stage in India for Men's Cricket. As far as International tournaments are considered, we eye medals in Boxing, Weightlifting, Shooting, Wrestling, table tennis, & badminton. Though it is a good count of diverse sports, it is time we focus on swimming, judo and other arena's of Sporting.

Atleast encouragement, promotions and good amenities are to be provided in the proficient categories of Indians,to strengthen our core competence areas & also to build multitudes of talent in short span of time.

P.T Usha & Milka Singh have become the lone shine for India, and subsequent to which that area of medals were not expected due to lack of facilities, encouragement by Government and poor concentration towards all strings of events.

Events other than Cricket has always suffered a lot of non-encouragement and sorely lacked motivation & inspiration.

If India has to rack up some good amount of medals tally in any asian or international outing, it must bring international standards and good ambience conducive enough to the players and their needs.

Hope with the namo into action, our 1.27 billion people nation will punch its way to higher and relatively good and appropriate position

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=23041Android and IOS phones has gain lots of popularity because of different kind of games and apps. Both of them having millions of games on their own stores and they are getting millions of downloads too. Users like different kind of games on their phone, some like action and some like adventure games. There is also a big group of people who love to play online games with other users from all over the world. Well, online gaming is having its own popularity and demand and some of those games have really big group of active users from whole world. So playing with them is like having lots of fun in compare of playing any game alone. Even I like to play such online games and so far I have experienced many of them. So I would love to introduce few of them with you here.

Few best online games for your smart phone

Home Run Battle 2: This is my personal favorite for now. If you are interested in sports then you will love this game for sure. This is pure fun game for base ball lovers which offer cool 3D graphics with amazing game play experience. Once you will start playing you will get used to of it soon enough. You can play, win and get more gold balls which will help you to upgrade your players, powers and other tools like baseball, cloths and many more. So this thing make this game even more additive as you would surely love to be best and get best ranking from all over the world. You can also play single player which offers different mode of playing like arcade and time play which will also offers you gold balls (which will help you to upgrading). And in multiplayer mode also you have different game playing mode like duel, survival and mission. Each of them have different game play like in dual mode you have to beat other player by hitting more home runs, while in survival mode you have to survive more by hitting more and more home runs against another player till he lose by miss hits and in mission mode you can play it with one to three other players together in which you have to pass different given mission mode. I am really surprise with this game as it is having so many active players around the world that you can on this game anytime and you will get the rival on the spot. So in short this is very additive online game, if you want to try out some online game then this is worth for a shot.

Zynga Poker: This is another additive online game among many people. If you are fond of playing card games and you love betting during them then this game is for you. This is the best Poker game I have played so far. Concept is same as other online games, more you win more you will earn and get more chips. More chips mean you having more rank and like that. As per this game they are having more than 6 million daily online players. So for any online gamer this numbers are attractive. Another good thing is that you can directly login with your facebook id so that you can see which of your friends are online on that game and play with them directly which will make your online game play even more interesting. You can also directly update your achievement of the game on your facebook id for the show off of course. So this is also one of the additive game and quite interesting for those who love playing card games specially poker. If you are one of them then you can surely go for it.

8 ball pool: This is another sports related game. This game is from famous game making company miniclip. Just like above two games this game is also having many active users and good thing is that just like Zynga Poker in this game also you can login with your facebook id which is surely a benefit thing for an online gaming. With facebook id you can challenge any of your friends individually and can play pool game with him/her. You can also play randomly with any online player available active on that time. In this game more you will win more you will get rank and money. More rank means you will able to unlock few special modes using which you can bet more on game. And more money means you can purchase few special things like better stick and better board. So these two things can make this game additive for you. There are few daily bonuses which you will get for completing some certain decided task which will give you more earning. Pool is famous game in all over the world, so no doubt this game is having huge fan following. So if you like to play pool games too that also with your online friends then this game is the best choice. You will get very smooth game play experience with great graphics.

Order and Chaos Online: This game is from famous game company Gameloft. And if you know games from them, you should know that they offer games with simply amazing graphics especially 3D graphics game. Order and Chaos online is also one of their 3D games but this one is online game. In this game you can team up with your friends online and have experience of great 3D graphics with different quests kind of level. Beat the enemy together have experience like being hero team together. I like the graphics of this game but this one is having few disadvantages in compare of other games I mentioned above. First thing is that this game is not free; you have to purchase it from the store. Second thing is that this game is quite huge in size, almost around 1.5GB. That size is quite big for an online game. So many people can avoid this game because of these two reasons as they don’t fit well in online gaming. But if you are okay with above two conditions then this can be best online game for you without any doubt. I don’t know about it more, but as far as I know Gameloft has also launched more versions of this game. I haven’t played them so don’t know more information about it. In short if you love 3D RPG kind of games and if you are a online gamer then this game is perfect choice for you of course if you are okay for purchasing it.

Subway Surfer: Honestly this is not the game can be put in online gaming list because whole game playing mode is at offline. But still somehow it gives feel of online gaming at some level. I apologize if someone is not agreeing on it with me, but personally I feel like this. This game have facebook mode option using which you can update your score on facebook. So it gives feel like online gaming where you would love to beat your friends score somehow. That’s what I have seen among my group friends on the facebook. Each of them just want to beat score of another one and surely it feels like online gaming even this game is not online. In short this is never ending running game where your character will keep running and facing different obstacles. More you will run more score you will get. You have to complete different given missions to increase your ranking. So more rank you have more score you will get during playing. No need to tell that this game is having great 3D graphics and this game is already lot famous in all over the world.

So this is it. This is my top 5 list for best online gaming in Android and IOS both. I have explained about them with all my personal experience and I have chosen them as best as per my experience and choice. If you are an online gaming player and looking for few good games then you should try out above games, you will never regret on them. All are quite additive games and popular in all over the world. So no doubt you will get more active users for playing. Plus in some of games you can directly play with your facebook friends which make them even more interesting and fun. No need to say that for all of the games you need internet to play, and some of them can be played offline mode too but there will be many limitations.

The 29th August of each year is observed as ‘Indian National Sports Day’ throughout India since 1995 to celebrate the birth anniversary of Major Dhyan Chand, the legendary hockey player of yesteryears who wielded his willow as a magician of rare caliber performing the impossible with his magic wand. The decision to this effect was taken by the government of India in 1994 to December and implementation was done the next year on Chand’s birth anniversary.

Padma Bhushan Major Dhyan Chand:

Padma Bhushan Major Dhyan Chand was born on the 29th August 1905 in a lower middle class family in Allahabad. In 1922, he joined the Indian Army and practiced hockey in his own unit under Brahmin regiment of services. Subedar major Bale Tewary, a good hockey player himself who was in good terms with the British army officials, could spot the talent and promise of Dhyan Chand and tutored him the finesse of the game. Initially, the game of Dhyan Chand was characterized by selfishness as he was an excellent dribbler, seldom passing on the ball to others for better results. Major Tewary transformed his selfish game into a passing game which created effective openings for conversion into goals.

Dhyan Chand took the suggestion of Major Tewary seriously and practiced accordingly with excellent results. Once during watching of a hockey match with his father from the spectators’ gallery, he saw a side trailing by two goals. He told his father that, given an opportunity to play with the losing team, he would have made them winners. One British official who was also present as a spectator, give him chance to play with the losing team and surprisingly, the losing team won with four-goal difference.

From Dhyan Singh to Dhyan Chand:

Pankaj Gupta was the second coach of Major Dhyan Chand as he spotted him playing hockey with a piece of stick on the open field in the moonlight. Dhyan Chand was named as Dhyan Chand by Pankaj Gupta. Gupta was so much excited at the single-minded devotion of Dhyan Singh that he was sanguine that Dhyan Chand would shine in the hockey firmament as the moon in the sky. His statement became prophetic and his rename became literal. Hard labor, concentration and time management made him towards perfection centimeter by centimeter.

Dhyan Chand as center forward:

Dhyan Chand’s first major success was championing his regiment in the inter services hockey tournament at Delhi while captaining the team. Everybody was spell-bound with his artistry and finesse. However, his game was confined to inter services and intra services tournaments held between 1922 to 1926.Dhyan Chand was a member in the 1926 Indian hockey team’s tour of News Zealand. India played 21 matches there, winning 18, drawing two and losing one. Altogether 216 goals were scored in the tournament of which India scored 192 and conceded 24 goals. This tournament launched Dhyan Chnad as a center forward in a big way and he found a permanent place in the Indian team in that position.

Three Olympic gold medals:

Dhyan Chand made his debut in 1928 Amsterdam Olympics. His powerful display saw India winning nine out of11 matches, drawing one and losing another. India scored 72 goals in the tournament conceding 18 goals in the process. The English media nick named him as the ‘hockey wizard’. India won the gold in the final defeating Holland 3-0 with Dhyan Chand scoring a couple. So, the golden years of Indian Hockey began. With Dhyan Chand’s contribution, India, also won gold medals in 1932 and 1936 Olympics.

Conclusion:

Major Dhyan Chand breathed his last on the third of December 1979 at Jhansi. It is an irony of fate that his last few years were spent in financial distress without any support from any quarters. The government of India introduced a life-time achievement award known as Dhyan Chand Award after his death in addition to the existing Arjun Award, Dronacharya Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khelratna Award and Tenzing Norgey Award. But it would have been different if he were honored, awarded and rewarded during his lifetime.

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=22712The Indian cricket team has won the 2013 Champions Trophy by defeating England in a rain hit final played at Edgbaston, Birmingham on June 23. The team led by M S Dhoni gave an all round display and did not loose a single match on its way to the finals. The Indians started as favourites and their chances of making it to the finals increased once they demonstrated their prowess in the opening match itself against South Africa.

Overcoming West Indies and luckless Pakistan was not at all difficult. England was expected to make a match of it, because the finals were being played in England and also the fact that they have never won any trophy in One day or T20 formats of the game. They did come very near in the rain truncated match reduced to 20 overs each. In the end the difference was a mere five runs, but a big margin in a 20 over match. India in its present form deserved to lift the trophy.

The real plus of the tour has been the right balance the team has achieved. After the retirement of a few eminent seniors it was expected that the Indian team would go through a long period of consolidation. However the present team has struck a right balance in all the departments. The one area where the progress has been impressive is in fielding. It was a pleasure to watch Indians field in a highly professional and effective manner. Young players like Raina and Kohli were the pick along with Dhawan and Karthik. The runs saved in fielding add pressure on the opposite team in scoring their runs.

In the batting department Shikhar Dhawan and Dinesh Karthik have blossomed into run-scoring machines, Rohit Sharma is also in fine form. Virat Kohli continues with his dependable batting. Dhoni comes into form when needed. In bowling Bhuvaneswar has been a real find. He usually gives an early breakthrough. Ishant Sharma gives runs but then strikes blows at the right time. Ashwin has by now established himself as the lead spin bowler who takes wickets but gives very few runs. Umesh Yadav can become an effective bowler with a bit more practice.

However the real progress has been of 'Sir' Ravinder Jadeja who has now established himself as an all rounder of great value to the team. His bowling is very accurate and is productive. His batting also contributes very valuable runs for the team, many of them in form of sixes to the delight of the viewers. He is equally a very good fielder. He was the man of the match in the final scoring an unbeaten 33 runs and taking 2 wickets. Shikhar Dhawan was rightly chosen as the man of the series, scoring 363 runs at an average of 90 with a high score of 114 runs. Another all rounder is Suresh Raina who scores, bowls and fields like a hawk. The new entrants have made us forget Sehwag, Ghambhir, Harbhajan, Zaheer and Yusuf.

India has now won the crown in all the three formats of the game. Dhoni has the honour of being the most successful captain till date. His winning percentage is 63 % in ODI's, 51% in T20's and 51 % in Tests. he is also known as captain cool because win or lose his expressions remain the same. He is all the time grinning and is rarely seen admonishing any player on the field. Under his captaincy India has won all the three ICC tournaments. It was world T20 in 2007, the world Cup in 2011 and now the Champions trophy in 2013. a unique distinction making all Indians proud. He has held the team together under tiring circumstances Indian cricket has recently gone through.

After a long time Indian team is strong in all departments of the game. They must now build on it and sustain this wonderful form for a reasonably long period of time. They owe it to their millions of fans both in India and abroad, who have remained loyal to them through thick and thin. One hopes that the strife within BCCI does not ruffle the Indian team.

Congratulations to Dhoni and his team on a fine victory in the last Champions Trophy tohave been conducted by te ICC.

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=22686Gaming is the part of many people’s life when they were kids. But now gaming has changed lot and even big people love to have few gaming experience with great gaming consoles. These days’ people love to play those big and 3D games in different category like action, adventure, racing, etc. with different kind of gaming consoles. Now many big companies are in the race of making new and latest gaming gadgets with latest technologies. Now gaming is not only limited with that old joysticks, as now there are high-end gadgets available like sensor gaming using which you can have totally unique and exciting gaming experience which will never bored you. So let’s see few of those gaming consoles which have gain lots of popularity in this gaming world. These gaming companies have started with simple gaming gadgets but now they have totally changed the gaming world with their super gaming consoles.

Sony Play Station

Sony has changed the meaning of old gaming by providing great 3D gaming experience in this gaming world. In starting people were used to play those 2D platform games in old gaming consoles but after Sony have launched their first play station version, this gaming experience reached to another level. So far Sony has launched many gaming console and here they are.

Play Station: They have launched Play station as their first gaming console in around 1994 which has given totally unique 3D gaming experience at home to all people. With this gaming console they gain lots of popularity in this gaming world and they forced to launch new version of their play station series.

Play Station 2: They have upgraded their first play station which was only capable of playing CDs. But with Play Station 2 they launched system which can run DVD. So with larger size of DVD in compare of CD they were able to give bog games with great graphics to the people. These play stations can easily play those movie DVDs too. So it is like multipurpose. It got launched by Sony at around year 2000.

PSP: The full name of PSP is Play Station Portable. As name suggest it is portable gaming device. Sony has change the gaming experience again with this magic device. This device is having size of joystick but with the screen enough to play games. So with this device you can play all those play station 3D games in your hand wherever you like. So Sony has put their games in peoples hand with this portable device.

Play Station 3: After getting good success from the previous play station devices. Sony has released another play station version play station 3 at around year 2006. With this version Sony has given wireless gaming experience to the people. Yes joystick with the play station is not having any kind of wires so user can play games with more ease. And this gaming console is having coolest gaming graphics which can beat all previous versions of play station.

Play Station 4: With all those previous success, now Sony is on the way of launching of their new play station version 4. It is still not launched but it can come on anytime with lots of upgraded version in compare to any previous version of the play station. So wait and watch gaming lovers as you can have surprise for sure.

So this is it for play station series. They have upgraded the same models mentioned above by launching their slim models too. But they all were having the same features and name, so no need to mention them as separate.

Microsoft XBOX series

As I said above Sony got lots of popularity by their play station gaming console. So by seeing this, the biggest and famous company Microsoft has also decided to come in this gaming field and they have started making their own series with the name of XBOX. In the starting it wasn’t able to gain that much success in compare of play station, but now they are doing as well as Sony or may be even more.

Xbox: Xbox was the first version from the Microsoft in this series. They have launched this version against the Sony’s play-station 2 version which was already too famous. So they don’t able to make that much popularity with this gaming console. It was having all those 3D gaming experience similar to play station, but may be they are missing something unique. But they have not lost hope and went for another XBOX version XBOX 360.

XBOX 360: Microsoft has launched another gaming console in XBOX series with name XBOX 360 in around 2005. This time they got it right, and this version become the successor of the XBOX series. At here they given really cool gaming graphics with wireless joy sticks same as Play station 3 but before play station 3. They also given XBOX live feature using which user can also play games online with their other friends and other people from all over the world. So with this uniqueness and with coolest gaming graphics that was much better in compare of play station 2, XBOX 360 was able to win gamers heart and got many successes with it. They able to sold record breaking gaming console with this series.

XBOX one: After getting huge success from XBOX 360, Microsoft has recently launched their new gaming console XBOX one in this year 2013. I don’t know about more features regarding this gaming console. But as far as I have heard it can beat all previous gaming consoles in graphics and many other features. The unique thing I found in this gaming console is it multi tasking. As far as I have heard, this gaming console will come with windows 8 operating system with few upgrading. Because of this operating system user can also operate few apps like Skype. So with this new gaming console user can play videos, play games and operate apps together which is making it quite unique. I am sure Microsoft has high hopes from this new gaming console. Sony may also launch their new play station 4 on anytime so it will be nice competition between these two big gaming gadgets.

So this is it for XBOX series. Their recent launch XBOX one is big and latest news in gaming world. Let’s see if it can keep up with Microsoft’s hopes.

Nintendo Gaming

I don’t think anyone can forget about this company. Just like everyone I have started playing with games with Nintendo gaming console. I still remember those 8-bit games which was very interesting and entertaining. Honestly I still enjoy those old games when I get free time. But just like others Nintendo also launched different gaming device to maintain their popularity in gaming world. And they have done well to by giving really strong competition to each and every company. Let’s see how this company has progressed with different gaming consoles.

Color TV Game: Nintendo Company had introduced color tv games with this device. They have started their gaming world with few very simple games like Block Breaker. But with this they have established their gaming world and they never seen back after this.

Nintendo 64: I don’t think anyone hasn’t tried out gaming with this gaming console. In fact this was my first gaming console too with it I had many good memories related to my gaming experience. This device had given few very popular games like Super Mario. I don’t think I need to give any information regarding such games. In very short time they were able to sold millions of this gaming console worldwide. With this gaming they started joystick gaming and caste for different games which become really popular. They have developed this gaming console around 1996 and in that time it gain lots of popularity.

Game Cube: This gaming console introduced in around 2001. With this Nintendo has given their first optical disc gaming at house level. This gaming console was using mini DVD to play different games. Nintendo was good with Nintendo 64 gaming console. But now play station 2 and xbox have taken place with advanced gaming experience. So to give competition to these two companies Nintendo have launched this Game Cube gaming console. But it wasn’t able to give that much competition to other two companies. So Nintendo have to think even further than this. Let’s see what was their next plan with next gaming console?

Wii: In 2006 Nintendo came with great gaming console to give competition to Xbox 360 and Play station 3. Now competition was even hard in compare of before, but this time Nintendo was well prepared. They have introduced Wii gaming console this time which was having many advanced technology features in it which can surely give hard competition to any gaming consoles. Nintendo have introduced wireless controllers with sensors which can catch user’s movement and respond as per it in three dimensions. They have also introduced WiiConnect using which it was able to get messages and air-updates directly to the device which was another attractive feature offered by Nintendo. Because of its good success Nintendo don’t able to stop launching next version of this gaming console. Here is the information for the next version.

Wii U: Because of good success get from Wii, Nintendo launched another Wii version named Wii U in the year 2012. With this gaming console Nintendo give many improved features and hardware over Wii gaming console. They have given their first gaming console which can produce High Definition Graphics with video output up to 1080p which is really cool thing. They have also given 2GB of RAM to have really fast gaming experience with high end games. It was released with two models, one is with 8GB flash size and second one is with 32 GB of flash memory. The main attraction of this gaming console is its game pad. It is the first gaming controller which came with touch screen display which can help user to play games easily when it was connected to TV, but with this it can also display game on that screen when TV is not available. So it is great feature and improvement over old Wii gaming console.

So this is it. I have explained about three famous gaming companies which have changed lot by years. They have started with simple gaming console but now each of them having super gaming console which are so much popular worldwide.

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=22338This article is about a multi-purpose stadium, which had been standing at the eastern state’s oldest capital for long. In Odisha, Cuttack is renowned as the sports capital. It was capital of Odisha for ages, since 1936, with the formation of Odisha as a separate state, from Odia linguistic communities, a new capital was born, which is famously known as Bhubaneswar. About 80 percentages of sports associations are situated in Cuttack. When, we talk about Barabati stadium in Cuttack, one can automatically relates oneself to cricket, due to its international cricketing status. With due course of time , Barabati stadium had hosted some of most prestigious international events like that of, hockey, football swimming, tennis and so on.

The stadium was constructed on 1950, March 12, on the remnants of Barabati fort, the major rulers of Odisha, who had conquered most of the areas of ancient India. Now, with due course of time, this stadium has been acquired by Cricket association of Odisha. In 2003, the Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI) allowed 60 cores of rupees in the name of Barabati shining to modernize the stadium. There are plans to construct, galleries, VIP boxes, swimming pools, cricket academy, indoor halls inside the stadium. In preliminary stages, it was decided that, the expenditure incurred in this project should be equally divided among BCCI and state cricket association. This project tastes the success as till this day, 90 percentages of work completed.

On 2003, February 7, for the first time in the history of Barabati stadium, flood light system started. Due to this, for the first time, this stadium gets the opportunity to host the international day and night cricket matches. Mesco Company of Kapil Dev, the talented former cricketer, constructed flood lighting system, with eight cores of rupees. It has the eight flood lights all around the stadium, and it has uniqueness. It is the only flood light system which can run on generators. There are nine generators of capacity for 125 KV has been there inside the stadium. In due course of time, many international crickets and football day and night matches will be hosted in this stadium with glories.

In due course of time, the dressing room inside the stadium has been augmented with higher capacity and greater space, convenience for players. In earlier, the dressing room was small, now it is bigger, with greater, smarter and personalized conveniences for each player with enhanced personalization facilities. There has been separate locker for each player, with high quality sofa, cushion and benches apart from additional massages for player to get fit, if they are injured. The dressing rooms inside Barabati Stadium are similar to the stadiums like that of Kolkata, Mumbai, Lords and Melbourne.

There are the facilities of corporate boxes inside stadium, with three stairs, namely block A, block B and middle block, and this place has been the center of attractions for many audiences. There are 26 boxes inside this corporate box, out of it in eight boxes, 60 people can seat and in remaining 18 boxes, 30 each people can seat and enjoy the match with a homely feeling. All these boxes are air conditioned and in each boxes there are additional conveniences for audiences like that of dining, toilet, sound and LCD system.

Odisha is a place, where the cricket team has not performed its best for longer time in Ranji Trophy, the premier county cricket tournament of the country. to find and nurture talent in and around this state, the cricket board of Odisha, installed the cricket academy to groom rare talents and polish them to enter regional and later in international circuits. The name of the academy is Odisha Cricket Academy. It was first introduced by Dave Whitmore, the former successful cricketing coach of Australia on 2009, February. Till this day, seven batches of players have successfully passed out from this academy. In this academy, there are conveniences for special coaching, bowling machines, academy hostels, library, gymnasium, six turf wicket, two synthetic pitches and two cement pitches. Apart from all these, there have been people from the areas of coaching, support staffs, artificial grass pitch, medicine ball, swinger ball, cameras for video analysis, computer projector, and many practices pitches, and multi gym inside cricket academy.

The main office of Odisha Cricket Academy (OCA), has been renovated and beautified and the entire office has been centrally air conditioned. For the first time, the new international conference hall has been constructed inside stadium hall. This hall is made for press conferences of many national and international matches as well as meetings of Odisha Cricket association. Many players from national and international circuit have praised immensely about the facilities residing inside conference hall.

In the project named as Barbati shining, there is one aspect of constructing indoor hall inside stadium. It is named as Sachin Tendulkar indoor hall. There are facilities for three cricket pitches, inside this indoor hall and besides this; there are provisions for basketball, volley ball, table tennis inside this ultra modern indoor hall. There are facilities for dressing rooms and gymnasium inside this indoor hall.

The swimming pool is situated in the middle of Odisha Cricket Academy. In this swimming pool, there are nine tracks and in the galleries 10,000spectators can seat and enjoy this water sport. The depth of water inside this swimming pool is 22 feet. The dressing room for the players, appointment of trainer, physicians and life savers make this place a safer place to practice swimming.

It is not a myth that, you have to be fit to excel in sports. There are facilities for multi gym inside stadium, so that player can be fit and raring to give 100 percentages while they are on the fields. Here, there are plenty of instrument for physical exercise. There are many ultra modern machines, inside this multi gym, which includes machines like that of parallel bars, bull walker and so on. By using all these machines, player can makes shape of their physical conditions to perform better and excel in the fields.

Barabati Stadium is one few grounds of this country, where, most of outside sports played at the ground. This means that the pitch of the ground needs to be taken care of all year around. For this purpose, more than 30 workers had been attending the stadium. They work day in and day out throughout the year for preparing the cricket 30 yard pitch, and the out field, which is the significant part of modern game of cricket, where the brilliance of fielding has been getting more and more prominence. For pitch, the black cotton soil from eastern sea shores of Odisha is used and for out field, the dead grasses have been removed continually and in their places the new grasses planted. The name of principal curator of Barabati Stadium is Pankaj Pattanaik. In the initial days, in the 70s the capacity for this stadium was 20,000 and in 80s, some more galleries were built and the capacity for audiences increased to 30,000 but after starting Barabati Shining project, many constructions and changes has bee done and the audience limit increased to 40,000 after 2002 and with the recent introduction of India Premier League matches, the initiation of corporate boxes, increased the capacity for stadium to 50,000.

Be it cricket, or football, in national and international matches, Barabati Stadium has been popular in national and international stages. It is the heart of sports of this eastern state and with due course of time many new initiatives has been done in and around this stadium to make it a perfect amphitheatre for many sports. Due to arrival of many projects and initiation of many sports complexes, the entire shape of stadium is now changing for goodness. Due to these developments the stadium is now famous all around the world. This article dealt with the new and innovative development inside Barbati Stadiums after initiation of Barbati Shining project from 2003.

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https://www.boddunan.com/topics/games-and-sports.html?view=article&id=21698Temple run is the famous endless running game. This game is quite entertaining and pure fun, and it is quite addictive too. I am sure the one who having android or ios device, have surely experienced this game. As it became so famous in short time for both famous mobile operating system, now Imangi Studios have released the second part of this exciting game for both os. They had launched the Temple Run 2 game for IOS devices last week and promised that they will launch the same game for android in next week. Now as they promised today they have launched the Temple Run 2 for android device too. I am sure many temple run fans will enjoy this game.

Here are some information regarding this game for both ios and android smart phones.

Size of the game: Unlike other big 3d games, Temple Run 2 will not consume more memory in your mobile device even it is having great 3d graphics. It only consumes around 33 MB of memory in installing this game which is really low if we compare it to other 3d games.

Requirements

IOS: It requires 4.2 or above iso version to run this game. So unfortunately ios devices with lower version like iphone 2g and 3g are not compatible with this game.

Android: In android this requirement is not that much issue. Minimum requirement is only 2.1 or higher version of android. So I am sure all android users will able to enjoy this game.

What is Temple Run Actually?

Temple Run is one of popular game for android and IOS device. It is available for free for both phones. Temple Run is actually endless running game in which you have to control one person who is running in some temple kind of location with endless track. During this endless run they have to face lots of problems and obstacles. During running users have to move/swipe their character on both side, have to jump and slide down for saving the character from different obstacles and many other things. So it is like pure fun. The most important thing is that once you start playing it, you will try to beat your previous score and your friends score again and again. This game is having lots of power ups and other upgrades which make it even more addictive. So in short it is quite addictive. Now let’s move towards Temple Run 2.

What is new in Temple Run 2?

If someone enjoyed the temple run game, I am sure they will double enjoy its second part. Imangi Studios have given more cool 3d graphics to this game in compare of first one. In the first part they have given some temple (temple in the jungle) kind of location, but in this one they have moved the character to whole different level with lots of changes. Now we have the location at mountain. Now user is running in the mountain cliffs, zip lines, mines and the forest. So these different locations with running, jumping, turning and sliding are making the gaming experience of this game even better. In this game we are getting whole new and difficult obstacles in compare of first temple run game. Plus here user is doing lots of exciting and new stuffs like flying on rope from one mountain cliff, moving from one mine to another mine in the trolley and many more during the whole running. Plus we having many new power ups and upgrades in this game in compare of the first Temple run game. So if we compare all these things with first part of temple run, user is getting much more different and exciting stuffs in this new version.

So in short this second new part is perfect. But surely difficulty level has been increased lot in compare of the first part. So let me suggest, if someone haven’t played the first part yet, better you go for the first part first and then for this latest game. Because this can be little bit difficult for you.

So this is it. I think I have given enough information regarding temple run game and its latest upgraded version. If you haven’t tried them, you surely are missing real fun. Try it.